Inside Consumer Group - Brand Manager Dell Technologies Employee Review

4.0
15 May 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work-life balance. Able to work from home in the morning or remotely if necessary as long as you get your work done. That said, if you are in Consumer Group - expect to be online up to 1 am as being logged in continuously is part of the culture. Dell still has a start-up culture which makes it fun, however, it also makes it inefficient. Things change on a dime so it makes it easy to react to market pressures. Always in meetings, always challenged - never sit at your desk for too long. Must be omnipotent about entire processes of company. Most people are fun at heart.

Cons

People are extremely competitive and sometimes backstabbers hiding information. In meetings all day - do your work after 5 pm, or during meetings on laptop. Multi-tasking culture. Job responsibilities not well-defined - everyone owns everything, you own nothing specifically or have to fight to keep what you own yours. People think your job is their business. No boundaries. Must be a star in meetings - sometimes that means at the expense at others. If you are not a star - and are not extremely verbal - even if you have nothing to say - say something - otherwise you are moving out. Very competitive, sometimes catty.

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5.0
5 Feb 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Great Place to work and advancement.

Cons

New Organization structure during 2025 ended team building by making one company/Division team instead of smaller specialized teams.

1.0
15 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Today? A job that helps pay the bills.

Cons

The culture completely changed circa 2022. Layoffs happen every month in small batches, so they are not covered in the news with big layoffs, but the total over the last couple of years is 10-20K people per year. Current employees that I still talk to live in constant fear of being laid off. The salary gap between employees in the same function is ridiculous and discriminatory. As a leader, when I'd raise it with HR, it was never addressed. Had a situation where I was hiring an underpaid employee from another team. I wanted to give her a 60% pay increase just to match what her peers on my team made, and I had the budget to do so. HR denied my request to do that raise and only gave her a 20% increase. They didn't want to send the "wrong message" that she was underpaid before (which she was) or that other employees could expect that level of pay raise in internal promotions (regardless of whether they should). They have to come into the office 5 times/week, even though Michael Dell once made fun of CEOs that didn't adopt hybrid/remote work. Just last week, I had a former colleague resign because the stress in the current environment was taking a toll on her mental health. If you have any other option, I'd highly recommend you don't take a job at Dell.

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